Barbed-wire fence



No. 465,640. Patented Dec. 22, 1891 WITH/E8858. INVENTOH a By laATTUR/VEY.

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOHN WOOL GBISWOLD, OF TROY, NElV YORK.

BARBED-WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,640, dated December 22, 1891.

Application filed June 15, 1891. Serial No. 396,256. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN WooL GRISWOLD, of Troy, Rensselaer county, New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Barbed-VVire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of wire fencing which is composed of a series of links, usually barbed; and it consists in the construction of said links and their combination to form a continuous fencing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View, and Fig. 2 a sectional view of my improved fencing on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

Each link, as a Z), consists of a length of wire A, doubled or halved on itself to form at one end of said link the eye B. At the opposite end of said link the extremities O D are bent over to form a double loop or eye E. The bent-over ends C and D are then carried rearward between the parts of the doubled wire A, forming the standing part of the link, and are then bent over and forward around said parts and transversely across the link, as shown at F and G. The bent-over ends F and G are sharpened to form barbs. The eye E of one link engages with the eye B of another link, and so on successively.

I claim 1. A Wire-fencing link composed of a length of wire doubled to form a loop or eye at one end of the link and having its extremities C D bent over to form a double loop or eye E at the opposite end of said link, the said bent-- over extremities being carried rearward be tween the parts of the doubled Wire A, forming the standing part of said link, and then bent back again and transversely across said standing part, substantially as described.

2. A wire fencing consisting of a-series of enchained links, each link composed of a length of Wire doubled to form a loop or eye at one end of the link and having its extremities O D bent over to form a doubleloop or eye E at the opposite end of said link, the said bent-over ends being carried rearward between the parts of the doubled wire, forming the standing part of said link, and then bent back again and transversely across said standing part, the eye E of one link engaging with the eye B of anotherlink, and so on, substantially as described.

JOHN WOOL GRISWOLD.

Witnesses;

JAMES T. LAW, M. Boson. 

